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APPLICATION FILED DEC=14,1920.

D. L. MAQAULAY.

CLOTHESLINE REEL.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 14, 1920.

1 4 2 Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

UNITED STATES PATENT optics,

"CLOTHESLINE REEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 14, 1922.

Application filed December 14, 1920; Serial No. 430,797.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL L. MAoAunAY, a subject of the Dominion ofCanada, residing at Inverness, in the Province of Nova Scotia andDominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inClothesline Reels; and I do hereby declare the followin to be a full,clear, and exact description 0 the invention, such as will enable othersskilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same Anobject of the invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive andefiicient device to serve as a clothes line reel whereby a clothes lineof hemp or like material may be main tained in a reeled and housedcondition except when actually in use to protect 1t from the weather andthus prevent its deterioration by decay, and also to provide, in adevice for the purpose indicated, means whereby it maybe readily securedto a post or building under such conditions as to effectually resist thestrains to which it is subjected when the line is extended and 00-cupied and whereby the line is accurately guided to the drum upon whichit is reeled, so that particular attention on the part of the operatorin housing the line may not be necessary, and so that when the line isno longer needed the free end thereof may be detached and released forautomatic wind ing by means provided for thatpurpose; and with theseobjects in view the invention consists in a construction and combinationof parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the drawings,wherein:

Figure 1 is a view of an apparatus embodying the invention showing theline in an extended position.

Figure 2 is a front view of the housing in which the reel is mounted. r

Figure 3 is a horizontal sectional [low on I the plane. indicated by theline 3- 3f'of Figure 2. V

Figure 4 is a vertical section onthe plane indicated by the line 4-4 ofFigure 2.

Figure 5 is a vertical section on the plane indicated by the 'line5-5 ofFigure 2, and

casing 14 and an actuating spring 15 ,.ar

ranged in a special or supplemental housing 2 15 within the housing orcasing 14 is provlded'wlth an arbor 17 carrying a sprocket wheel 18which is connected by a chain 19 with a similar but smaller v rocket 20on theshaft of the drum. The-ice end of the line 21 may be provided witha shackle 22 for engagement with the stem 23 of a compensating sprlng 24adapted tobe secured the casing or housing the line is to be stretched,and disposed transversely at the frontof the casin 0 housing is a bar 25provided with a s 0t 26 through which the line extends and by vvhich itis guided in the operation of reeling and unreeling, it be- .to a postor other ob'ect between which and ing obvious that when unreeled theturning of the drum places the drum actuating spring under a tensiondependent upon the amount of extension of the line, so that when the endof the line is released the drum will be turned to'rewind the line andthus house it within the'casing, the terminal shackle carried by thelineserving as a stop to limit the reeling movement by engagement withsaid transverse guide bar.

aid guide bar is preferably extended through openings 29 inthe sidewalls of the casing and is extended to form arms 30 which are outwardlydeflected ad'acent to the rear wall of the casing to provi efeet'31which are adapted to be'fastened by means of screws 32 or any equivalentthereof to the side wall of a building or a post suitable for supportingthe casing in position to re ceive and protect the lin Said transverseguide bar therefore with itsextensions forming the arms andsecuring feetconstitutes a keeper which serves to substantiall embrace the casing orhousembracing the exterior of opposite sides of ing and thus rmly anchorit to the su port the casing, and attaching feet extending outto whichit may be fastened, and ena le it wardly from said arms With theirattaching to successfully withstand the strains which surfaces insubstantially the same plane as 15 5 ma be applied to the line when inuse. the base of the casing.

Y aving thus described the invention, what In testimony whereof I afiixmy signature I claim is in presence of two witnesses.

A reel structure including a casing, a reel DANIEL L. MAQAULAY. withinthe casing, a bar spanning the cas- Witnesses: 10 ing and having a guideslot for aline se- E. PHILPoT'r,

cured on the reel, said bar having arms J D. MCDONALD.

